Internal -External focus. Yet the four resulting quadrants are largely distinct. Client centricity is added
as a new relevant leadership dimension (where Environment and Exploitation are combined) and
Organizational creativity is introduced as the quadrant between Exploration and Organization,
focusing on the level of the organizational system, instead of the leader-follower dyad level.
In that sense, strategic leadership is different from the classical and new leadership theories as it
focuses on leading the organizational system, while the classical leadership theories have been
primarily focused on the leader-follower dyad. Moreover, strategic leadership originates from what an
organization requires, hence its starting point is the organizational context, instead of the heroic leader
figure. This approach fits the contemporary leadership approaches where the emphasis is expanding to
include the context as important leadership variable. Given that the focus is less on the individual
leader, the strategic leadership model opens up the possibility of different individuals fulfilling
different leadership roles concomitantly in order to reach seemingly contradictory goals, so-called
shared strategic leadership.